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600 In Poetry
Europe Poets * Cædmon likely flourishes from approximately 657 to 680 in Northumbria * Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig, Irish (d. 661) Works * ''Cædmon's Hymn'', Old English * ''Dream of the Rood'', Old English, possible date * ''Hisperica Famina'', Hiberno-Latin Byzantine Empire Poets * George Pisida, in Greek Arabic world Poets * Abu 'Afak, from Hijaz, a Jewish poet writing in Arabic * Layla al-Akhyaliyya, early Banu Uqayl tribe female poet * Al-Rabi ibn Abu al-Huqayq fl. in Arabia just before the Hejira * Eleazar Kalir, from Kirjath-sepher, writing in Hebrew * Al-Khansa, in Arabia, early Islamic woman poet * Jabal ibn Jawwal, a Jewish convert to Islam, in Arabic Births of Arab-language poets *al-Akhtal (''c.'' 640–710) *Kumait Ibn Zaid (679–743) *Kuthayyir (ca. 660-ca. 723) Deaths of Arab-language poets * Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha (570–625) *Antarah ibn Shaddad (525–608) *Durayd ibn al-Simmah (d. 630) *Hassan ibn Thabit (d. ''c.'' 674) *Labīd (5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cædmon
Cædmon (; ''fl. c.'' 657 – 684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century historian Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in mediaeval sources, and one of only three of these for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived. His story is related in the ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' ("Ecclesiastical History of the English People") by Bede who wrote, " ere was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make religious verses, so that whatever wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirjath-sepher
Kirjath Sepher ( he, קִרְיַת-סֵפֶר; in LXX grc, Καριασσῶφαρ) was a location in southern Canaan which became part of the land allocated to the tribe of Judah when the Israelites conquered Canaan, according to the Hebrew Bible (Book of Joshua, and Book of Judges, ): ''And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife''. According to the narrative, Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took Kirjath Sepher and so was married to Achsah. The place is also referred to as "Kiriath-sepher" or "Cariath-Sepher", and was later known as Debir. () Kirjath Sepher is mentioned in Papyrus Anastasi I as Karetai Thoupar. Kappa Sigma fraternity According to the traditions of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, the fraternity evolved from an ancient order, known in some accounts as "Kirjath Sepher", said to have been founded between 1395 and 1400 at the University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qays Ibn Al-Mullawah
''Layla & Majnun'' ( ar, مجنون ليلى ; '''Layla's Mad Lover) is an old story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layla-Majnun theme passed from Arabic to Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages", through the narrative poem composed in 584/1188 by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, as the third part of his ''Khamsa''. It is a popular poem praising their love story. Qays and Layla fell in love with each other when they were young, but when they grew up Layla's father didn't allow them to be together. Qays became obsessed with her. His tribe Banu 'Amir and the community gave him the epithet of ''Majnūn'' ( "crazy", lit. "possessed by Jinn"). Long before Nizami, the legend circulated in anecdotal forms in Iranian ''akhbar''. The early anecdotes and oral reports about Majnun are documented in ''Kitab al-Aghani'' and Ibn Qutaybah's ''Al-Shi'r wa-l-Shu'ara'.'' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
